Senior Software Engineer, Python

Contract Details:

• Duration : Contract

• Location : Remote

• Engagement : Full-time contract with potential for extension

• Compensation : Competitive, based on experience, day rate

The Role:

We are seeking a Python Engineer for a 12-month contract to develop and maintain web applications using Django and Wagtail CMS. You will work on building scalable, high-performance backend systems while enhancing content management capabilities.

The Team:

We are passionate about making peoples’ voices heard by creating exciting and useful content based on in-depth, accurate market research, and about delivering that to people in the best way possible. We are looking for people to join us who have an enthusiasm for content creation and publishing and are looking for opportunities to expand their skills and knowledge into new areas.

We have a global panel of over 26m people, allowing us to gather data on likes and dislikes, political opinions, what worries them, and much more. We are responsive to current events – ensuring decision-makers and business leaders always have accurate, timely, information.

Our mission is to supply a continuous stream of free-to-access, accurate data and insights into what the world thinks, so that companies, governments and institutions can better serve the people and communities that sustain them and to be a valued public resource used by hundreds of millions of people daily, enabling intelligent decision-making and informed conversations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize backend applications using Django ****and ****FastAPI

• Build and customize Wagtail CMS websites, including custom page models, blocks, and workflows

• Design and implement RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services

• Work with relational databases ( PostgreSQL ) for eOicient data storage and retrieval

• Optimize applications for performance, security, and scalability

• Lead system design and code architecture discussions

• Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic

• Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it

• Define testing strategies and write automated tests

• Lead the technical excellence of the system and create plans to mitigate outages

• Pro-actively mentor other engineers

• Foresee the impact of business and technical decisions on performance, reliability and

• Own the entire software lifecycle

• Propose and participate in team processes improvements

Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a Python backend developer

• Expert knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI, CherryPy)

• Proficiency in relational databases (PostgreSQL) and ORM frameworks

• Extensive experience with Git , CI/CD pipelines , and software development best practices

• Knowledge of Elasticsearch for search indexing

• Proven experience in building ****and ****deploying ****scalable ****microservices

• Profound knowledge of Docker

• Solid understanding of modern testing principles

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• High focus on quality, operational excellence and customer experience

Nice-to-have skills:

• Hands-on experience with Wagtail CMS , including page models, stream fields, and admin

• Understanding of Celery and task queues for background processing

• Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems

• Experience participating in mitigating technical debt

• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies

• Proactive in identifying risks and taking an impact-centric approach to problem- solving

Tools & Technology:

• Collaboration & documentation: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Miro

• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, AWS, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic,

• Python (Django, FastAPI, CherryPy, Flask), Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Company Description and Culture

YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.

We speak daily to our panel of over 27 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.

Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

Life at YouGov

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.

We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.

Data Privacy

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